The Iron Seas Series

THE IRON SEAS series combines nanotech and pirates with a gritty, gaslit Victorian atmosphere to create swashbuckling steampunk romance…with an emphasis on the steam. Not quite sure what steampunk is? Here is a quick overview. To learn about the Iron Seas alternate history, click here.

Where should you start?

All of my novellas have been written to stand alone, so you could pick any one of them up and enjoy it. But Here There Be Monsters takes place before the other events in the series, so it’s just a natural place to start — and it’s longer than the short story in The Blushing Bounder, so you get a longer, better look at the world.

You can read Here There Be Monsters in print and in ebook. It’s available as a standalone digital novella, and also in print (and ebook) in the anthology BURNING UP, which also includes fantastic stories by Nalini Singh, Angela Knight, and Virginia Kantra.

All of the novels contain a plot and romance that stands alone, but I suggest starting with either The Iron Duke or Riveted. The series moves around the world, and these books serve as introductions to its part of the world, and don’t share any common characters. The Iron Duke is more of a fast-paced story with a classic alpha hero and a detective heroine; Riveted is more of a slow-building romance and adventure, with a sweeter hero and heroine.

If you enjoy linked books, I recommend The Iron Duke, followed by Heart of Steel. The events from the first novel spill into the second, and secondary characters we meet in The Iron Duke get their own stories in Heart of Steel.

Riveted features characters new to the series.

Iron Seas #0.4 (Short Story)

THE BLUSHING BOUNDER

AN IRON SEAS COMPANION STORY

Originally published in the anthology Wild & Steamy. While the search for a killer puts Constable Newberry’s life in danger, he faces a danger of another kind: to his heart, by the woman forced to marry him. What will it take for this prudish bounder to convince his wife to stay? Read more –>

Iron Seas #0.5 (Novella)

HERE THERE BE MONSTERS

AN IRON SEAS COMPANION NOVELLA(Previously published in the anthology BURNING UP)

Two years ago, blacksmith Ivy, desperate to flee London, purchased her overseas passage by agreeing to spend the voyage in the bed of the pirate captain, Mad Machen. Saved at the last minute by his rival, Ivy scraped out a new life in Fool’s Cove…until Mad Machen finds her, forces her to accept a job that will create a monster, and reminds her that she still owes him the price of a journey… Read an excerpt–>

Iron Seas #1 (Full-Length Novel)

THE IRON DUKE

A NOVEL OF THE IRON SEAS

After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power — and fear — of his name. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. Read full description–>

#1.5 – Epilogue Novella

“Mina Wentworth and the Invisible City”

When newly-married Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth is called to investigate a bounder’s murder, she doesn’t expect the mysterious machine she finds…or the danger that leads back to her husband. Read full description–>

Iron Seas #2 (Full-Length Novel)

HEART OF STEEL

A NOVEL OF THE IRON SEAS

As the mercenary captain of the Lady Corsair, Yasmeen has learned to keep her heart as cold as steel, her only loyalty bound to her ship and her crew. So when a man who once tried to seize her airship returns from the dead, Yasmeen will be damned if she gives him another opportunity to take control… Read full description–>

#2.5 – Epilogue Novella

“Tethered”

When a request for help from an old friend threatens everything that Archimedes Fox holds dear, Yasmeen must risk losing her new airship to a scourge of the Iron Seas… or risk losing the man she loves. Read full description–>

Iron Seas #3 (Full-Length Novel)

RIVETED

A NOVEL OF THE IRON SEAS

Annika serves on an airship, searching for her sister and longing to return home. But that home is threatened when scientific expedition leader David Kentewess comes aboard, looking to expose Annika’s secrets. When disaster strikes, leaving David and Annika stranded on a glacier and pursued by a madman, their very survival depends on keeping the heat rising between them—and generating lots of steam… Read full description–>

Iron Seas #3.4 (Novella)

WRECKED

AN IRON SEAS COMPANION NOVELLA

Originally published in the anthology Fire & Frost. Elizabeth has spent the past five years running from her father; her father’s huntsman, Caius, has spent the past five years pursuing her. But when he finally catches up to her on an airship flying above Europe’s zombie-infested cities, Elizabeth discovers that Caius isn’t the only danger she has to fear—and now that he’s found her, Caius doesn’t intend to let her go…Read full description–>

Iron Seas #3.5 (Novella)

ENTHRALLED

A man who’s lost everything returns home to find that not only is his marriage in jeopardy, but he must now fight air pirates who intend to steal his one remaining treasure — his wife. Read full description–>

Iron Seas #4
(Serial Novel)

The Kraken King

A SERIAL NOVEL OF THE IRON SEAS

A former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders. Unsure if she’s a spy or a pawn in someone else’s game, Ariq isn’t about to let her out of his sight until he finds out…

After escaping her fourth kidnapping attempt in a year, Zenobia Fox has learned to vigilantly guard her identity. While her brother Archimedes is notorious for his exploits, Zenobia has had no adventures to call her own—besides the stories she writes.

But when she jumps at the chance to escape to the wilds of Australia and acquire research for her next story, Zenobia quickly discovers that the voyage will be far more adventurous than any fiction she could put to paper…

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Meljean was born on a small farm in the country of Florin. Her favorite pasttimes were riding her horse and tormenting the farm boy who worked there. His name was Westley...but she never called him that.